Combined bustle and hip-pad



(No Model.)

0. M. STRONG.

COMBINED BUSTLE AND HIP PAD.

No. 286,562, Patented Oct. 9, 1883.

hip-pad, and D is the bustle.

UNITED STATES ATiJNT Fries.

CAROLINE M. STRONG, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

COMBINED BUSTLE AND HIP-PAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 286,562, dated October 9, 1883.

Application fi ed May 12, L893. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CAROLINE M. STRONG, a citizen of the United States. residing at Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and waistband.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a front view of a corset having secured around it, in the position in which it is worn, a combined bustle and hippad constructed according to my invention. Fig. 2 is a rear View, showing the lower portion of the parts shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a transverse section.

In the drawings, A is the waistband, Bis the e indicates the curled hair in the hip-pad and in the bustle.

The hip-pad parts-that is to say, the outer and inner short skirt-shaped piecesare made from any suitable cloth, being adapted by their form to descend and surround, nearly, the person of the wearer, substantially as shown, so as to nearly cover the hips, or quite so, if desired. The said hip-pad parts v 1; are sewed by their upper edges to the Waistband A, (the latter being provided with the usual buckle or other suitable fastening device,) and between themis interposed a filling, preferably of curled hair, which gonstitutes a light and very elastic filling, which is unobjectionable respecting ventilation; and said parts 'v n and curled hair 6 are united into said pad by sewing through them at intervals, as shown, and

by uniting the lower edges of said parts 12 o.

The bustle D is made of the usual crescent shape, and is, like the hip-pad B, filled with curled hair, and is attached to thehip-pad at the point ofits junction with the waistband A.

The above-described construction of a combined hip-pad and bustle provides a light and easily compressible article ofwearingapparel,

but possessing every requisite for imparting to the form of the wearer the desired fullness just below the Waist and around the hips; and the bustle D, constituting a part of the combined article, and also filled with said curled hair 6, serves the usual purpose of said part. The tivo together conduce to produce a more graceful form in or impart to the overlying skirts of the wearer a more pleasing line of fullness than when the bustle is used separately. "What I claim as my invention is The combined hustle and hip-pad described, consisting of the waistband A, having secured thereto the hip-pad B, the padded portion of 65 which is adapted to extend above the hips and wellforward around the person of the wearer, as shown, and the bustle D, also secured to the waistband, so as to rest above and upon the rear portion of the hip-pad, all substantially .as described, and for the purpose set forth.

CAROLINE M. STRONG. \Vitnesses Win. H. CHAPIN, It. F. HYDE. 

